Chanukah Menorah set with everything you need for to light Menorah at home.Order a full Menorah kit Package includes 1 tin menorah, 1 box of 44 candles and 1 dreidel.Or order just a box of Candles. Limited supplies available. Available only during Chanukah season 2024. Please note: Local pickup only.Continue Reading
Chabad Center For Jewish Life warmly invites you to a special Chanukah Tailgate Celebration before the Bills game! Get ready to ignite the holiday spirit with a festive morning filled with:✨ Delicious Latkes and Donuts✨ Drinks (including L’chaim for the adults!)✨ Uplifting Chanukah Music✨ A spectacular giant LED Menorah lightingContinue Reading
Get Lit @ Drinks & Dreidels: A Young Professionals Chanukah Event! Come join other young Jewish professionals from Buffalo for a fun-filled Shabbat dinner filled with drinks & dreidels. Whether you’re a seasoned dreidel spinner or a complete newbie, this event is perfect for everyone. Sip on your favorite beveragesContinue Reading
Rabbi Zvi Kogan, a Chabad emissary dedicated to fostering Jewish life in the United Arab Emirates, was tragically murdered by terrorists after being abducted in Dubai on Thursday afternoon. Emirati authorities confirmed the devastating news early Sunday morning when his body was recovered, ending a days-long, intensive international search effort.Continue Reading
Share the love, share Shabbat! Nominate a Jewish friend, family, neighbor, or loved-one to receive a freshly baked delicious Challah for Shabbat! Just fill out the form on our site, that’s it! No charge, just sharing the love of Shabbat!Continue Reading
The joyous climax of Simchat Torah is the dancing of hakafot (lit. “circles”), during which we dance and sing with the Torah scrolls. In the words of one Chassidic master, “On Simchat Torah the Torah scrolls wish to dance, so we become their feet.” The hakafot are a memorable event, certainly one of the highlights on the Jewish calendar. It isContinue Reading
When two Jews meet each other on holidays or even in the days prior, it is customary to wish each other a good, happy holiday. But what to say? Here are your options: The traditional Ashkanazi greeting is “Gut yom tov.” “Yom tov,” which literally means “good day” in Hebrew, denotes a holiday.Continue Reading
In Short When: In 2024, it starts in the evening of October 23, and concludes after nightfall of October 25. What: The holiday of Sukkot is followed by an independent holiday called Shemini Atzeret. In Israel, this is a one-day holiday; in the Diaspora it is a two-day holiday, and the second day is known as SimchatContinue Reading
The word sukkah (pl: sukkot) literally means a “shaded booth.” In a rather cryptic verse, the Torah tells us to dwell in a sukkah for seven days so that coming “generations shall know that I caused the children of Israel to dwell in sukkot when I took them out of the land of Egypt.” Oddly enough, nowhere in the entire narrative ofContinue Reading
Dear fellow Jewish women, Are you available this Monday? I’d love for you to join! As we get ready for the Jewish new year, let’s unite and enjoy an evening of Challah baking fun with other local Jewish women. Monday September 30, 7:30pm At Chabad Center For Jewish Life1016 Lafayette AveBuffalo, NYContinue Reading
